Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.4337/9781789902747.00009
Alice Bleby, C. Holley, Ben M. Milligan
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Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.4337/9781789902747.00015
Dario Piselli, H. Asselt
{"title":"Planetary boundaries and regime interaction in international law","authors":"Dario Piselli, H. Asselt","doi":"10.4337/9781789902747.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902747.00015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230724,"journal":{"name":"Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130933739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.4337/9781789902747.00019
Michael Picard, Olivier Barsalou
{"title":"Exploring the planetary boundaries wasteland: international law and the advent of the Molysmocene","authors":"Michael Picard, Olivier Barsalou","doi":"10.4337/9781789902747.00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902747.00019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230724,"journal":{"name":"Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126418566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.4337/9781789902747.00018
J. Ebbesson
{"title":"Compliance with planetary boundaries in international law","authors":"J. Ebbesson","doi":"10.4337/9781789902747.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902747.00018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230724,"journal":{"name":"Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131840307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.4337/9781789902747.00027
N. Cooper
{"title":"Freshwater consumption and the global hydrological cycle","authors":"N. Cooper","doi":"10.4337/9781789902747.00027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902747.00027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230724,"journal":{"name":"Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130610500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.4337/9781789902747.00012
L. Collins
{"title":"Science, law and planetary uncertainty","authors":"L. Collins","doi":"10.4337/9781789902747.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902747.00012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230724,"journal":{"name":"Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133845616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.4337/9781789902747.00021
H. Somsen, A. Trouwborst
{"title":"Loss of biosphere integrity (biodiversity loss and extinctions)","authors":"H. Somsen, A. Trouwborst","doi":"10.4337/9781789902747.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902747.00021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":230724,"journal":{"name":"Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129880753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.4337/9781789902747.00007
L. Kotzé, D. French
A point has been reached in history when we must shape our actions throughout the world with a more prudent care for their environmental consequences. Through ignorance or indifference we can do massive and irreversible harm to the earthly environment on which our life and well being depend. Conversely, through fuller knowledge and wiser action, we can achieve for ourselves and our poster-ity a better life in an environment more in keeping with human needs and hopes. 7 There is an urgent need for a new paradigm that integrates the continued development of human societies and the maintenance of the Earth system (ES) in a resilient and accommodating state. The planetary boundary (PB) framework contributes to such a paradigm by providing a science-based analysis of the risk that human perturbations will destabilize the ES at the planetary scale. 26 planetary boundary (PB) framework contributes to such a paradigm by providing a science-based analysis of the risk that human perturbations will destabilize the ES at the planetary scale.
{"title":"Staying within the planets safe operating space? Law and the planetary boundaries","authors":"L. Kotzé, D. French","doi":"10.4337/9781789902747.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902747.00007","url":null,"abstract":"A point has been reached in history when we must shape our actions throughout the world with a more prudent care for their environmental consequences. Through ignorance or indifference we can do massive and irreversible harm to the earthly environment on which our life and well being depend. Conversely, through fuller knowledge and wiser action, we can achieve for ourselves and our poster-ity a better life in an environment more in keeping with human needs and hopes. 7 There is an urgent need for a new paradigm that integrates the continued development of human societies and the maintenance of the Earth system (ES) in a resilient and accommodating state. The planetary boundary (PB) framework contributes to such a paradigm by providing a science-based analysis of the risk that human perturbations will destabilize the ES at the planetary scale. 26 planetary boundary (PB) framework contributes to such a paradigm by providing a science-based analysis of the risk that human perturbations will destabilize the ES at the planetary scale.","PeriodicalId":230724,"journal":{"name":"Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122026615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.4337/9781789902747.00029
Tiina Paloniitty, Chukwukpee Nzegwu, D. French
The volume concludes with Chapter 20 that focuses on the boundary of ‘chemical pollution (and the release of novel entities)’. In this chapter, Tiina Paloniitty, Chukwukpee Nzegwu and Duncan French describe how the international legal, policy, and institutional framework on chemical pollution, while having evolved noticeably over time, has remained piecemeal, and arguably is still reflective of a lack of political will to tackle truly the seriousness of what is undoubtedly a global problem. As one component of this planetary boundary – the other element being the release of novel entities, which is not covered in this chapter – chemical pollution is a significant ecological and human health risk, exacerbated by its cumulative impact, toxicological build-up over time, and the geographical ease by which it spreads. Notwithstanding the lack of consensus yet on a planetary boundary threshold, the global challenge is acute. This chapter also considers the state of current international chemicals law, as well as the relevance of transnational attempts to control chemical pollution, most notably the European Union “REACH” (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) Regulation. Recognising the complexity of chemical pollution, the chapter proposes a move away from a single global regime, to embrace the plurality of regulatory responses, both international and regional, as effective means to tackle this particular challenge. Nevertheless, such regimes must recognise the innate inequity in the present global economic and political structure, and address the current lack of substantive solidarity towards, especially, the global South.
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